Galt's Gulch

Hiding my posts?

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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Dale, You win. I'm out. When you can get sharp toward me and I cannot respond because a moderator hides my reply posts this is no longer a place of discussion, its indoctrination. Enjoy the echo chamber.

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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 5 months ago
    AJ-that's the point of POSTING.
    You just used it! Post away-Db cannot hide anything you say on YOUR posts! Look, you are in the majority on this site. That you and Dale disagree is of little consequence. IF you want to debate Dale's posts-do so!
    We all have the world to win around here-speak your mind!
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 5 months ago
    "hides my reply posts"
    These are the posts that you have to click to read, right? All things being equal, having to click on a post because it's out of favor makes it stand out more.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago
    Perhaps or as I just found out some posts don't get added because they are coming not from a computer but from a cell phone system. Running from technology is an excuse not a reason.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago
      And sometimes for absolutely no reason at all they get posted twice. This example which happened in the same space time just means something is wrong with the hardware or the software. I suspect the neo-socialist Gates myself.....
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 8 years, 5 months ago
    I found this in the "David Hume" topic. I am saddened and disappointed, but not surprised. Power corrupts. The power to hide posts you do not like in "your" topics is another of the structural problems here. This was not an "original power" but was granted about a year-and-half into the Gulch. It took some burden off the Site Owners when it came to identifying and cleaning out trolls. It also opened the door to this.

    I read Alan Ashinoff's hidden comments in "David Hume" and while I might easily debate several points, all of them were well worth debating. Disagree with Alan as I have, I never found him anything but high-minded, even as I was not. He responds well to those who do not. And this case, also, he made his points.

    It would be a loss to the entire Gulch for Alan to leave just because DHalling was corrupted by power.

    I disagree with khalling (who agrees so easily with d) because her suggestion that we be silenced in some topics because we have the right to silence others in "our own" topics ultimately destroys the community, reducing it to an archipelago of hostile islands. Like most of us here, I am not a big fan of community per se. To announce that "we are individualists" is ironic, of course.

    Or perhaps that is the way it should be.

    Perhaps the Gulch is better off with islands of conformity where you could read and agree but not post an argument. Hard to say.... It might be interesting to see how that played out.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago
      Quitting is not an option. At best use the ignore button as an individual choice. I use it to ignore boredom. i'[m sure others may say the same about me. It's an individual choice and no one mentioned thus far has failed to contribute positively despite occasional 'spirited' differences.

      If I left who would represent the cannon fodder and baby factories? How would I expand myself. I am rather greedy in that regard.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 5 months ago
    Cmon, AJ.
    I know I can be irritating sometimes, but we have differing opinions on some things.
    I think the supression of opposing voices by an original content poster is a very questionable method for the Gulch, but those are the rules here at present. Its the original content poster's option.
    Do you have a compromise suggestion to this way of doing things?
    I'd like to hear it.
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